The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-06-02
rowN AND COUNTY ITEMS.
,0.-arsam Wednesday evening !


the best.
Judge Chrismau is holding Court thi'
week In Claiborne.
Bacon, -four, meal, rice, coffee and su
oar cheap at Powell's.
Mr.. r. w. Simmons is erecting q large
new saw mill near town.
r1oJR-Go to Powel's for the best
aour and ut lowest prices.
See WIN. Abshageu's new stock for the
atest and best in gents shoes
Rev. w. b. Murrah filed the Methodist
pulpit in jackson last Sunday.
Mr.. NJ. X. Leary is building new resi-
depce near Mr.. John MarshalPs.
Mrs. Martin McGrath has been quite i'll,
but is better at present writing.
New cheese, pure leaf lard, cheap tin
ware, novelties and notions at Powell's.
VIM. Abshagen has the incest and
latest STYLES of shoes for the season, prices
low.
CIsrERNs-A. Riggs e. Bro, PAT Delord
street, near. Dry AIDES, New Orleans. Send
for price list.
Mr.. Wilson Price is spending few
DAYS in town, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
z. d. Davis.
Mr.. Fred, Sherman is preparing to erect
a handsome residence near the south end
of Jackson street.
You will get better bargains with quail.
ity, price, etc., considered) ct KohlmaD's
Great Cash House.
Our amateur dramatists played " The
Lady of Lyons" to a good house at Halle
hurst Monday evening.
If you want o cool, ifresh, exhilerating
drink, try LewenthaPs ice-cold soda wa
ter, only cents glass.
That well-known aud accomplished lady,
Mrs. V. C. Harris, is visiting Monticello
with Mrs. w. II. Butler.
We are glad to learn that Assessor Ty
ler is slowly recovering from his injuries,
but his condition is still critical.
Col. B. F. Jones has gone to Texas to
take part in the Prohibition campaign.
He will make it lively tor the antics.
Mr.. D. Schwem, one of our enterprising
citizens, is erecting q commodious home
on the fine situation of the old Price
place.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. d. S.
Rollins, of beat 3, is recovering from the
wounds recently inflicted by would-be
assassin.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
hereafter sell ice-cream on Wednesday
evening at the same stand in front of
Heuck & Sons.
Our clever townsman, Mr.. F. II. Hart
man, has been urged by members of the
Farmers Alliance to become a candidate
for County Treasurer.
The Presbyterian Mite Meeting will be
held at the residence of Mr.. b. T. Atkins
next Friday night. Come one, come all
and have an exhilerating time.
Some rowdy shot through the front
door of the City Drug Store last Saturday
night and the ball glanced, making it's
exit at one of the near windows.
The Young Mems Monday night pray
er-meeting at the Methodist Church has
been converted into Bible class for
the informal discussion of Bible sub
jects.
The ladies of the Wesleyan Society
will sell ice-cream and straw berries at the
Masonic Hall tomorrow evening as
usual. Price 10 cents q saucer. Give
them q call.
Mrs. Bennett and Miss Addie Marshall
represented the Brookhaven w. C: I. U.
in the State Convention. We hope one
of them will favor THE LEADER with a
report of the meeting.
Our young friend X. d. Sessions has our
thanks for an invitation to attend the
Sixth Annual Commencement Bali of
Misunderstanding academy, Wednesday
evening, June 18th.
Our young friends, Messrs. L. T. Fitz-
hugh, Jr., James Gadberry, Edgar Harris
and Joe Magee, left Tuesday morning for
Pearl River where they will spend a few
days on fishing expedition.
Messrs. E. NJ. and Barnard E. Bee were
received into the Presby terrain church at
Magnolia last Sabbath. Mr.. Barnard
Z. Bee and his little son were baptized by
Rev. Mr.. Graham, the pastor.
Larkin Baggett spent few days in
Memphis last week visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Baggett. He returned highly pleased
with his new sister and the dignifed,
man-of-business that Lee Baggett has
become.
The beautiful and ennobling drama
"lngomar," will be presented at Heuck's
Hall on Thursday evening, June 9th, by
our Brookhaven amateurs, with Mr.. Will
McGrath in the title role and Miss Lulah
Ragsdale as Parthenia.
Our clever friend s. F. Magee would
make capital newspaper reporter. Any
thing that happens at night within a
radius of so miles is known by him next
morning before breakfast, and nothing
IN the way of news ever escapes him.
A well-known topper from the country
went home last Saturday evening earlier